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"The history of unemployment and many concepts surrounding it remain a mystery to many Americans. Frank Stricker believes we need to understand this essential thread in our shared past. American Unemployment is an introduction for everyone that takes aim at misinformation, willful deceptions, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stricker, Frank (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Unemployment > United States > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
Economic history
Social conditions
Unemployment
United States > Economic conditions.
United States > Social conditions.
États-Unis > Conditions économiques.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
United States
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: History Lessons: 1873-2018
  • 1 Discipline for the Unemployed
  • Laissez-Faire for Business (1873-1920)
  • 2 The Twenties and the Thirties: Boom, Bust, and New Deal
  • 3 Full Employment: Experiments and Battles (1940-1974)
  • 4 Low Unemployment + Low Inflation: Can't Be Done, Is Done (1975-2000)
  • 5 Low Pay, Great Recession (2001-2018)
  • Part II: Real Numbers, Explanations, Remedies
  • 6 The U.S. Unemployment Rate: Development and Debate
  • 7 Why So Much Unemployment?
  • 8 Real Full Employment: Where Capital Fails, How Government Can Succeed
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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